Well it's getting to that time of year again, Chr mas. Sorry, I can't bring myself to say it. My first dinner dance is on 25th November, yes November. Now I sometimes have a wee sing-a-long when we don't have a lot of people, or they're a bit slow to dance, and I was wondering if you could give me some suggestions for some different sing-a-long songs. The ones I currently use are:-

The Wonder of You.
Great Balls of Fire
Living on a Prayer
Delilah
Roamin' in the Gloamin'
I Love a Lassie
Keep Right on 'til the End of the Road
Lily the Pink


Basically, what do you sing along to when you're pi ed???

You`ll never walk alone
American pie
mustang sally

Hermes House Band- Country Roads. Have used this for months, at every gig, with great response!

Heigh Ho Silver Lining

Almost any 10cc song

I'm too sexy.....

Almost any Rod Stewart (70s)

Bohemian Rhapsody

Leavin' on a Jet Plane (mind, you'd have to almost comatose to enjoy that one)

5000 Miles (Proclaimers)

I predict a riot

Need I go on......

sweet caroline..... neil diamond

this old heart is weak for you.......?

tracks of my tears..... smokey robinson

Is that a new one?

Jeez, you must be an incredibly busy person (NOT)

It's the Seven Dwarves Remix

Cher - It's in his kiss

Daydream believer - Monkees
Amore - Dean Martin
What will be will be (Que Sara Sera) - Doris Day

Busy enough thank you.

Don't let the sun go down on me - Elton & George

Monty Python - sit on my face

The Beatles - Hey Jude
Oasis - Don't look back in anger
Ben E King - Stand by me
Bedouin Soundclash - When the night feels my song

Deliala ... Tom Jones

Under 18's - seems like anything from High School Musical (Following gig last night).

Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl is one I use alot

right don't laugh at this one but recently i did a disco and the age group was shall we say getting on..... i have a c.d. called songs that won the war..... played it towards the end and they loved it loads were singing along...

james - sit down

You're spot on there. The Lambeth Walk, Roll out the Barrel, Don't Dilly Dally. Great

chacarron

I have various bits n bobs scattered allover the place but what I'd like is a cd of stuff like as mentioned above (not chacarron!) like Maybe its because i'm a londoner, roll out the barrell etc and also another one of big band stuff and crooners too.

Can anyone name some collections that I should purchase. A tracklisting would be cool too?

I have the main ones but as I said, they are all over the shop.

I picked up a triple cd from ASDA which is great for big band sound.

It's called Hits Of The Forties and has classics from Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Count Basie, Jimmy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman and Benny Goodman among others. It also has Billy Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Dinah Washington and The Andrews Sisters.

54 tracks for under £5, you can't go wrong.

Fly me to the Moon (Tesco's 'exclusive')
Songs That Got Us Through WW2 (Various)
Sean Wilson - Keep On The Sunnyside (Various).....100 tracks (tho' not all of them are known to me)

I think the point is that given a large HMV, Virgin etc. there are loads of these things out there.

Mine main problem is that I tend to look for 'original' recordings, and thats where any historical compilation falls down (unless you are v. careful), they tend to have a (very) small piece of text that says something along the lines of: some of these recordings are rerecorded, or taken from a live...etc

Thanks guys. I must admit that I always have a look through the bargain bins when I go to Asda or Morrisons and it's good what you can find. Picked up the best of Brand New Heavies the other day for 99p and also a best of Meatloaf which was priced wrongly at £3.39.

I'll have a good look around for the ones you've mentioned above so cheers again!

My girl - temptations
devoted to you - olivia Newton John
Hungry Eyes - Eric Carmen (from dirty dancin)
ive got you babe - sonny n cher
I love you baby - Andy Williams
Close to you - Carpenters
Alice - Smokey

Old Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra - New York, New York.

I have had great responses from :-

Sweet Child of Mine (try the flip & fill mix)
Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
Where Ever I Hang My Hat - Paul Young
Everybody Wants To Rule The World -Tears For Fears

Sweet Child nearly took the roof of last week,

Robbiie Williams - Angels